Development Chef (Food Manufacturing)

GBR Recruitment Ltd, are working in exclusive partnership with a well established progressive SME size food manufacturing company based in the heart of Northamptonshire, recruiting for a highly creative, highly innovative NPD Development Chef, to come up with new culinary delights to meet current market trends / tastes.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is passionate about creating new product lines that can be produced in volume for B2B & retail customer markets.

This role could suit someone working in a professional Chef role, working with food manufacturing, hospitality, restaurants, hotels, gastro pubs or a bistro type setting.

Duties:

• Produce culinary delights for customers to sample & approve
• Develop fresh new ideas, that can be turned from conceptual ideas into new production runs, ready for customers shelves
• Create recipes that can be followed & produces on a high volume scale, ensuring the factory has the capability to deliver such quantities
• Producing specifications for the products developed in the NPD kitchen
• Maintaining a list of the core ingredients / measures for all new lines
• Ensure stock levels are kept in line with NPD requirements
• Ensure the development kitchen is audit ready at all times
• Attend production runs for new product launches
• Evaluate current food lines & look at ways to improve them (CI)
• Deliver effective / professional customer food presentations
• Communicate professionally with internal teams & clients
• Work closely with the Process Technologists / Technical teams
• Liaise effectively with Production operations & Commercial teams
• Turn conceptual ideas into reality

Attributes Desired:

• Experienced in a NPD Chef / Creative Chef role or very similar
• A passionate foodie, who is up to date with current food trends / tastes
• Used to producing food that can be volumised (mass produced)
• Food qualifications, plus time served within a professional kitchen
• Strong professional communicator at all levels
• Able to work within an SME sized business (flexible / adaptable)

This key NPD Chef role is commutable from: Northampton, Earls Barton, Rushden, Wellingborough, Raunds, Thrapston, Kettering, Burton Latimer, Bedford, Milton Keynes & surrounding areas close to these.

Interviews to take place immediately for the right applicant/s